Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road

Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road

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Enchanted Wood is an inclusive Forest Preschool for 2-4 year olds.

Forest Preschool for 2-4 year olds
Rabbits (2 year olds) 9.30-12pm
Hedeghogs (3-4 year olds) 9am-1pm
38a Bean Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA6 8DN

Operating as usual

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 31/01/2025

๐ŸŒณ In Forest School we continued our Chinese New Year celebrations with lots of lovely activities.

๐Ÿ As itโ€™s the year of the snake we made our very own stick snakes by wrapping wool around sticks that we found in Forest School.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ We used rice and noodles in our Chinese themed mud kitchen, used flour to make Chinese images and bottles dipped in paint to make a blossom tree.

โ˜”๏ธ We also enjoyed a very wet and muddy Forest School and had a lot of fun jumping in the muddy puddles.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 31/01/2025

This week in Hedgehogs we have been celebrating Chinese New Year.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ As part of this celebration we had a special visit from one of our parents who talked to us about Chinese New Year celebrations. She explained why it is celebrated and how it is linked to the story The Nian Monster. Lots of lovely pictures were shared and opportunities for the children to ask questions and share their own knowledge on the subject by answering some of the questions.

๐Ÿงง We have explored our rice tray finding golden coins, then counted them out and put them into our red envelopes whilst looking at our numbers.

๐Ÿฅ‡ Retold the story โ€˜The Great Raceโ€™ with our animal tuff tray, then pretended to be the animals as we played a race game outside. We talked about orders of places in the race.

๐Ÿ We have used our fine motor skills to decorate snake pictures, a snake craft and demonstrated great hand, eye coordination skills as we made pasta snakes by threading the pasta on to the pipe cleaners and used paint to decorate and add colour to them.

โœ‹๐Ÿฝ We also used play dough to create different size snakes and used different shapes to make patterns or their backs. We did lots of rolling the play dough with our hands building up our muscles ready for writing.

๐Ÿ’ฎ Whilst exploring the red sand we took our time to copy some of our Chinese number symbols and had fun creating our own symbols and patterns.

๐Ÿชญ We decorated our own fans with red and yellow paint and different sequins and materials.

๐ŸŠ Explored our orange tuff tray. We squeezed and cut them up whilst adding water and we spoke about quantities as we filled our pots/jugs. Did you know that oranges are a good luck fruit in china because of its name being very close to wealth/gold.

๐Ÿซ– We had a tea party tuff tray where we explored different herbal tea bags and added water to our china tea set to create our own tea.

๐Ÿงฑ We worked together and used team work to build the Great Wall of China.

๐Ÿ‰We have really enjoyed learning a new dragon song this week, where we pretended to be dragons and acted out lots of actions.

๐Ÿ”ก Our phonics sound of the week is โ€˜pโ€™. We have learnt the songโ€™Puff out the candles on the pink pig cakeโ€™ and looked at different items that begin with the letter โ€˜pโ€™. ๐Ÿท

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Our Goldilocks words are Chinese New Year and Snake.

๐Ÿ“• Our book of the week is The Great Race.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 31/01/2025

This week in Rabbits we have been celebrating the Luna New Year, and we have learned that 2025 is the Year of the Snake ๐ŸThe Snake symbolises growth, renewal, and adaptability, encouraging people to reflect on their paths, embrace change, and seek personal growth.

๐ŸŽจ At the craft table this week we decorated paper plate snakes, using cotton buds dipped in different coloured paints.
We also used our hands, fingers, and plastic bottles to decorate a Blossom Tree.

๐ŸŽ๐Ÿƒ Our Teachers created 'The Great Animal Race' in the story area. We spoke about what animals were involved in the race, and if we had seen them in real life.๐Ÿ๐Ÿ„

๐ŸŠ We explored an orange inspired water tray, in which we squeezed and crused orange slices using our hands and a pestle and mortar.

๐Ÿซ– Some of our Rabbit friends have been serving the teachers pretend bubble tea while playing in the Garden. So for our tuff tray this week, we made real bubble teas! We poured water into teapots, and mixed it together with flavoured teabags. Once properly brewed, we poured our tea into cups, and popped in little bouncy balls, to recreate a bubble tea.

๐Ÿช™ To accompany our playdough this week, we used a variety of tools including lolly sticks, rolling pins, gold coins and beads.

๐Ÿ‰ During circle times this week, we have enjoyed listening to and dancing along to the song 'See the Dragon Dance'. We performed our best dance moves, and was given the opportunity to wear an Dragon Headdress while we danced!

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ โ€˜Gong hei fat choyโ€™ to all of our friends Celebrating the Chinese New Year๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks Words - Chinese New Year/ Celebrate/ Snake/Dragon

๐ŸŽต Song of the Week - See the Dragon Dance

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 24/01/2025

This week in Rabbits we have been talking all things weather. During circle times, we have discussed the different types of weather and how they make us feel.

๐ŸŽจ At the craft table we have used bubble wrap to create big rain drop paintings. We also got messy by using our hands and fingertips to make a beautiful brightly coloured rainbow.

๐ŸŒˆ We have been filling and emptying containers with different coloured rice using spoons and scoops. We realised that if we dropped the rice from height and it sounded like rain as it hit the tuff tray.

๐Ÿ›’ The home corner was turned into a corner shop. We filled our trolleys full of food, and our teachers scanned our shopping. Then using money, the teachers helped us count out the coins.

๐Ÿ› While in the garden, we took turns to roll balls and cars down the slide and ramps. We predicted which ball or car would be first and last, and modelled language such as fast and slow.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks Words - Weather, Rain, Rainbow
๐Ÿ“– Story - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 24/01/2025

This week in Hedgehogs we have been learning about different types of weather.

๐ŸŒˆ We have been creative making raindrops, rainbows and clouds out of playdoh adding cotton wool and rainbow pipe cleaners to help us.

๐Ÿ’งExplored with mixing different types of blue paints in our ice block water tray, seeing that when we mix white with the blue paint it makes the blue lighter.

๐ŸปWe have been retelling the story of โ€˜Weโ€™re Going on a Bear Huntโ€™ and then we used the wooden blocks build bridges to help the teddy bears cross the bridge whilst practising our prepositional language.

โ›ˆ๏ธ In our rice tuff tray we brewed our own storm adding lightning bolts, rainbows, rain drops and clouds. We had to count out the correct number of each and then mix them all together.

โ˜€๏ธ We have made colourful rainbow wind socks and shape sun catchers, which we tested out on the window and watched our creations light up.

๐Ÿ”ก Our phonics sound of the week is โ€˜tโ€™. We have explored different items that begin with this sound, played hide and seek โ€˜tโ€™ objects and played a tambourine game, where when it stopped on one of us we chose what sound the item began with.

๐Ÿ“™Whilst reading Weโ€™re Going On A Bear Hunt the children demonstrated some lovely listening skills and were able to fill in lots of missing gaps to the story.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธOur Goldilocks words were weather, clouds and rainbow.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 17/01/2025

This week in Rabbits, we have been looking at and learning about Minibeasts.

๐Ÿฆ— We had a wonderful visit from ZooLab, who showed us different insects.

๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ› For our crafts this week, we have created spiders, caterpillars and snails using paint and a variety of tools.

๐Ÿ’ฆ Explored and looked for different insects in water trays and troughs. We collected them in nets and transported them to different trays.

๐Ÿœ Some of the insects were trapped in sticky, muddy cornflour! We rescued them using spoons. It's was tough as the cornflour was very gloopy.

๐Ÿ•ธ We put our throwing skills to good use by throwing balls into a hula hoop themed spiders web. We waited out turn patiently and demonstrated our best throwing arms to hit the web.

๐Ÿฆ‹ We have enjoyed listening to The Very Hungry Caterpillar this week. At the end of the story, one of our friends asked; 'what is a cocoon?' Our teachers said this was a very good question! And explained what a cocoon is and its purpose. We then looked again at the story so we could see the change from catapillar to cocoon to butterfly.

๐Ÿ“– Story of the Week โ€˜The Very Hungry Caterpillarโ€™.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธGoldilocks Words Bugs & Insects.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 17/01/2025

The theme in Hedgehogs this week has been Minibeasts.

๐Ÿž We have created ladybirds with red play dough and used our math skills to count out and take away spots.

๐Ÿ› Explored and read โ€˜The Very Hungry Caterpillarโ€™ using props to retell the story. In red and green rice we made marks and filled cups with varying amounts. ,

๐Ÿฆ‹At the craft table we made and decorated beautiful butterfly wands.

๐ŸชฒWe used our tick lists and magnifying glasses to explore our bug set up and find the bugs on our sheets.

๐Ÿ•ท๏ธHelping to develop our fine motor skills we used pinchers to catch our coloured spiders through the giant web without getting caught.

๐Ÿ Explored our bee tuff tray and used our numbered bees to help us with our number recognition. We spent some time lining them up in number order to 10.

๐Ÿœ Made bug fossils by pushing them into our brown playdoh and looking and speaking about the imprint it had made.

๐Ÿ’ฆ We had fun washing the spiders down the guttering in our water tray singing along to Incy Wincy Spider as we did.

๐Ÿ”ธ We have been creative making our own bugs using different coulored shaped paper and glue.

๐Ÿ”ค Our phonics sound of the week is the lettter โ€˜aโ€™. We have looked at different words that begin with this sound, learnt the song โ€˜ants on your armโ€™ and used an apple rolling print to decorate our letter โ€˜aโ€™.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธGoldilocks words are caterpillar, ladybird and butterfly.

๐Ÿ“™Book of the week is The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 14/01/2025

๐Ÿ ZooLab Visit ๐Ÿž

As part of our Minibeasts topic this week the Rabbits and Hedgehogs had a visit from ZooLab. They showed us a selection of animals including a:
๐ŸŒ Giant Snail
๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ Tarantula
๐ŸชณCockroach
๐Ÿ Snake
๐Ÿธ Frog

We had the choice to touch some of the animals to see if they were slimy, soft, hard, bumpy or rough and learnt some facts about them. If we were a little unsure, we could just wave at them as they passed us by looking from a distance.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 10/01/2025

This week in Hedgehogs we have been celebrating the New Year and have enjoyed seeing our friends and welcoming some new friends into our class.

๐ŸŽจ We enjoyed making a big 2025 poster where we worked as a team to decorate it and explore firework patterns.

๐ŸŽ† In our colourful firework tray we used paint brushes to practise our mark making skills.

๐Ÿช‡ We had a New Years celebration set up where we explored different sounds with our instruments and tried to create firework display sounds. We had lots of fun dancing and singing on our stage with our colourful scarves.

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธDecorated our very own 2025 pictures using different materials and coloured paints.

โš–๏ธ Talked about different quantities as we used our colourful rice tuff tray to empty and fill up a variety of containers.

๐Ÿ”ข We did some amazing counting as we placed our colourful pom-poms onto our numicons creating colourful patterns as we did.

๐Ÿ”ค Our phonics sound of the week is โ€˜Sโ€™. We have been learning the song โ€˜The Snake is in the Grassโ€™ and looking at different words beginning with โ€˜aโ€™ and practising these at circle times.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks words - Happy New Year 2025

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 10/01/2025

๐ŸŽ‰ Happy New Year ๐ŸŽ‰

It's been lovely welcoming back our families after the Christmas break. The Rabbits have settled back into preschool beautifully and have been telling us all about the favourite activities and toys they enjoyed.

๐Ÿซง We have enjoyed exploring a potion themed tuff tray this week. We paired coloured water with sequins and gems alongside squeezy pipettes, bottles, spoons, and bowls. The children scooped, poured, tipped, and trickled the water into the different vessels.

๐Ÿ–๐ŸปTo help develop and strengthen the muscles in our hands, we used our fingers and tweezers to move different sized pom poms into gold trays. We counted out pom poms into corresponding number trays.

๐Ÿ˜Š Play dough is always popular with the children, and is also a fun way to support early literacy skills. We have enjoyed squashing, cutting, stretching and pushing loose parts into the scented dough.

๐Ÿ›’ Our role play area was turned into a shop. We filled our trolleys and baskets with food and one of our friends pretended to open a toy banana and said 'it's my baby's breakfast'.

๐ŸŽจ We have had some beautiful artwork this week. Using lots of brightly coloured paints, we used brushes to create paintings to welcome in the New Year.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks Words - Happy New Year
๐Ÿ“– Book of the Week - Shark in the Park and The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 13/12/2024

๐ŸŽ„ Christmas Party ๐ŸŽ„

Today the children had a lovely time being entertained and meeting Father Christmas at our Christmas party.

Thank you from all of the team at Bean Road for our lovely cards and gifts. It is very generous of you and means a lot.

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We look forward to seeing you in 2025!

๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 06/12/2024

๐ŸŽ„Christmas in Forest School ๐ŸŽ„

This week we have been exploring all things Christmas.

๐ŸŒฒ We made our own Forest School Christmas tree from fallen branches and decorated them with Christmas decorations.

๐Ÿ”” Made jingle sticks by threading bells on to pipe cleaners and then wrapping them around sticks we had found.

๐Ÿฅฃ We explored in the Christmas sensory water tray scooping and pouring the different ingredients to make a Christmas soup.

โ„๏ธ Used Christmas loose parts to decorate small trees in the tuff tray.

๐Ÿฅ„ In the mud kitchen we made Christmas puddings and mixed them up and dishes them out to our friends.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 06/12/2024

As part of our Christmas celebrations this week, we invited a special adult in to join us at our Christmas Stay and Play sessions.

The children enjoyed sharing some of our Christmas activities with you and singing along to some Christmas songs.

Thank you to everyone for coming in.

โ›„๏ธ๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿฝ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 29/11/2024

This week in Hedgehogs we have been learning about road safety and continuing to explore our winter topic.

๐Ÿšฆ We explored our sensory traffic light rice tuff tray where we enjoyed making marks with our cars and making roads with pasta shapes.

โ›„๏ธ Using our snow play dough we created snowmen by rolling and shaping the dough, and then added different features using a selection of materials.

๐ŸŽจ We spoke about what makes ice and used our paint on the ice cubes to experiment mixing colours.

๐Ÿš— Created our own car wash and made our cars look sparkling clean.

๐ŸŒฒ We used our imaginations to create winter tree scenes with loose parts.

๐Ÿšฅ Explored traffic light colours and created our own road signs and traffic lights with our play dough. We learnt what the different traffic light colours mean and when you should go and stop. Our cars made fun marks in the play dough too.

๐ŸงŠ We rescued our winter animals from the ice using different tools. We worked out the best way to save each animal and what were the best tools to crack the ice.

๐ŸŽฒ Using our dice at circle time we had fun taking it in turns to roll a number, recognise the number and then match it to the correct number spots. We all did really when at this activity.

๐Ÿฅฃ As it has been so cold this week we made a yummy vegetable soup to eat at snack time. We helped prepare the vegetables and added them to the pot.

๐Ÿ“• This week during story time we have been learning the different parts of a book and what they mean.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Our Goldilocks words are Title, Blurb and Spine.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 29/11/2024

โ„๏ธ๐ŸšฆThis week in Rabbits we have continued with our winter theme, and have also discussed Road Safety.

During circle times this week, we spoke about how to stay safe when crossing the road and what the red and green lights mean.

๐ŸŽจ We have been working on our fine motor skills this week by making marks on our paper. We have made big and small circles and long and short lines.

๐ŸงŠ We painted cold ice blocks using paint brushes. The paint mixed together with the melted ice and created beautiful patterns in the ice.

๐Ÿš˜ We had lots of fun exploring a mini car wash this week. Using bars of soap, brushes, and sponges, we lathered up the cars to give them a good wash.

๐Ÿ‘ฃ While in the garden, we used wooden planks to create a long winding path. Together, we added more and more planks until the path snaked around the garden. Our teachers reminded us to use our 'aeroplane arms' to help us balance if we felt wobbly.

๐ŸŸขWe explored a posting activity on Thursday, which helped strengthen the muscles in our hands. We used tweezers to pick up different sized pom poms, and post them into the correct colour circle.

๐Ÿ—ฃ Goldilocks Words - Red means Stop. Green Means Go
๐ŸŽผ Song of the Week - This is the way we cross the road.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 28/11/2024

โ„๏ธThis week in Rabbits our theme has been Winter. We have been talking about the change in the weather as we are now in a new season; Winter. โ„๏ธ

๐ŸŽจ At the craft table, we made some beautiful winter inspired artwork. We created pictures using different textured paper in winter colours and glued them down using spreaders.

๐Ÿ–ผ We dipped cotton balls, which were held by pegs, into paints and made different patterns and marks on our page

๐Ÿง—๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธWe enjoy lots of physical play while at preschool, so this week we played on the climbing frame! We carefully walked along the balance beams, then went down the bumpy slide. Our teachers demonstrated how we could use our 'aeroplane arms' to help us balance if we felt wobbly.

๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ We painted on soft cotton wool sheets during a tuff tray activity. The cotton wool was soft and white, which reminded some of us of snow.

๐ŸŒณDuring our garden play it started to snow!! We watched as tiny snowflakes landed on our coats and hair. As we were exploring the outdoors, we noticed that water in our mud kitchen bowls had frozen and turned to ice! Our teachers explained that when it gets really cold, water turns into hard cold ice. We used the ice in our play, adding it to leaves and mud. It made a crunching, cracking sound as we hit it with spoons and whisks.

๐Ÿ’งOur teachers have noticed that we were struggling with washing our hands before we had our snack. So for circle time, Sarah helped us with a hand washing activity. Sarah sprinkled water onto our hands using a watering can 'tap' and demonstrated how to add soap to our hands. We then sang a song which reminded us how to wash our hands. Once our hands were super clean, we dried our hands using a paper towel. Good job Rabbits!! ๐Ÿฐ

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks Words: Winter, Cold
๐Ÿ“– Story: The Gruffalo

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 22/11/2024

This week in Hedgehogs we have been learning about winter and the changes that we might see in our environment as the weather gets colder.

๐ŸŽจ We have used the pipettes and water paint to explore mixing colours on our cotton wool snow sheet.

๐Ÿปโ€โ„๏ธ Explored some animals that like the cold and using our icy rice water we measured quantities.

โ„๏ธ We have used our mark making skills in our sensory snow, forming patterns and letters.

๐ŸงŠUsing our fine motor skills and pincers we rescued the snowballs from the ice tape, we then counted how many we had rescued at the end.

๐Ÿซš We had fun baking gingerbread men in our role play bakers. We used the play dough and shape cutters to make the gingerbread men and then let our imaginations run wild to make our own creations.

โ›„๏ธ Enjoyed making snowy pictures with white paint, glitter and cotton wool balls.

๐Ÿง One of our circle time activities was to count out syllables of words using our tap sticks, focusing on the words ice, polar bear and penguin.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Goldilocks words: winter, ice and snow.

Photos from Enchanted Wood Preschool- Bean Road's post 17/11/2024

๐ŸŽผThis week in Rabbits, we have been singing lots of Nursery Rhymes in celebration of Nursery Rhyme Week.

๐ŸŒŸ At the craft table this week, we created a Twinkle Star Wand, using glitters and sequins. We then waved our stars as we sang 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.

๐ŸŸ We explored the water tray, which was home to fish and sea animals. We used nets to catch and collect them. We counted how many fish we had caught and sang '1,2,3,4,5....'

๐ŸŒบ We enjoyed exploring a Poppy inspired play dough activity, where we squashed, stretched, rolled, and pinched play dough. We also used this time to ask the children if they had noticed any Poppies while they had been out with their families.

๐Ÿ›ถThe role play area was turned into a boat, floating along a pretend River. The children took turns steering the Boat, and sang 'Row Row Your Boat' while sailing.

๐ŸชWe decorated biscuits in recognition of Children in Need. We poured and spread icing over biscuits, and added smarties to represent the spots on Pudseys bandana.

๐Ÿ—ฃ Goldilocks Words - Poppy, Nursery Rhymes, Pudsey.

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